Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws

Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by detaro on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:41AM (#22792454)

How does "P2P can't even maintain audio for large-ish groups in my experience" translate to "transmitting WQHD desktops"?

One of the large strengths of tools like Zoom over the typical WebRTC-P2P thing is that they can avoid exactly that, and e.g. maintain a stable audio only (or extremely low-quality video) conference for people on slow connections.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by fock on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:54AM (#22792542)

I suppose you can stop transmission of all video in jitsi as well (or at least it should be possible, given that it supports landline dial-in as well)? low quality video of heads is not that interesting for me personally (and for all purposes except keeping a literal headcount).

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by detaro on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:25AM (#22793977)

Jitsi is not an example of a peer-to-peer system for group calls. The default UI doesn't expose that many configuration options for this sadly from what I've heard.

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